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On December 6, Marcus Mitchell, a Navajo tribal member who was subjected to excessive violence while peacefully protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in January 2017, filed an appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. The MacArthur Justice Center is representing Mr. Mitchell in this lawsuit. This is the second time Mr....

NEW ORLEANS — Today, the Orleans Civil District Court delivered a significant win to the unhoused community in New Orleans, granting a preliminary injunction preventing the Louisiana State Police and the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries from removing, evicting, displacing — also known as “sweeping” — encampments without constitutional protections. The order also stops the...

ST. LOUIS – On Wednesday, October 2, 2024, Washington University School of Law will host “When Innocence Isn’t Enough”, a panel event recognizing the 11th International Wrongful Conviction Day. International Wrongful Conviction Day is a day to raise awareness of the causes of and remedies for wrongful conviction and to recognize the tremendous personal, social,...

CHICAGO – A new expert report in a civil rights lawsuit challenging “incommunicado detention” in Chicago police stations has found that almost no one in police custody is consulting with a lawyer and more than half of the people in Chicago Police Department custody are not making a phone call within three hours of arrest....

WASHINGTON – This afternoon, Devi Rao, Director, DC Office, Director, Supreme Court and Appellate Program for the MacArthur Justice Center released the following statement on today’s United States Supreme Court decision regarding Trump v. U.S.: “One of the central founding principles of our Nation is that the President is not a King. Our Framers believed that no...

“Charles, Larod, Lashawn, and Troshawn are among the scores of kids who the Chicago Police Department has targeted for false arrest and coercive interrogations over the years, leading to Chicago’s reputation as the False Confession Capital of the country,” says Alexa Van Brunt, Director of the Illinois office of the MacArthur Justice Center and counsel for Charles Johnson.

Last week, the Supreme Court of Delaware unanimously decided that individuals challenging the legality of their criminal convictions can continue pursuing their challenges even if they are released from custody while their cases are pending.

“As a citizen of Jackson who has traced my family’s documented presence in Mississippi back to 1855, I am grateful for the clarity of the state constitution regarding the election of circuit court judges, and I am grateful for the Justices affirming that constitutional requirement.”

Plaintiffs in a putative class action lawsuit, Jones v. City of St. Louis, filed a motion containing a staggering volume of evidence against the St. Louis City Justice Center (CJC), including over 360 use-of-force reports, more than 50 declarations and grievances and video footage of correctional officers macing detainees at point-blank range with “riot-sized” cannisters—often while people are restrained in handcuffs or locked in small cells.

After spending 14 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Wayne Washington is finally a fully free man.